Growth Pics & Need Identification

[erbio]

I am very excited to see the amount of growth this coral has had in just three months!

What kind of Acropora is this?

June 25, 2009:

August 15, 2009:

September 11, 2009:

 

[RobbyVonAwesome]

I'm no expert, but it looks like that could be ORA Chip's Acro.

Either way, you're getting some nice growth!

 

[Whisperer]

I am leaning towards a. tenuis.

 

[Whisperer]

I am leaning towards a. tenuis.

 

[firereef]

Acropora Coral, Purple/Green Tenuis

 

[minhvu]

tenuis. nice growth

 

[Zylski]

Are you guys sure its a tenius? The first pic expecially looks like my ora blue bottlebrush.

 

[krucial]

Its a bottle brush (IMO)

 

[erbio]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15696446#post15696446 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Zylski
Are you guys sure its a tenius? The first pic expecially looks like my ora blue bottlebrush.

I just looked it up! I agree, it looks like a blue bottlebrush. Thanks

 

[Dansin]

Looks like a Ora bottle brush.

 

[29reef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15696884#post15696884 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Dansin
Looks like a Ora bottle brush.

FWIW when most people buy a ORA coral they know the name, that way they wont need any ID. Having said that I think that the coral looks like what most people refer to as a A. tenuis, or Bottle brush Acropora. I think your are getting great growth for that coral; but be careful of those green star polyps they will spread and kill just about everything in their path.

 

[Whisperer]

Bottle brush is not a specific name for a coral, I have seen more than one species of corals that are called bottle brush.

 

[Zylski]

Yes but this one looks exactly like the ORA Marshall Islands Blue Bottle brush, It has the blue tips and the Marshall Island polyps. 29 reef dont be so harsh he probably didnt get from ORA he probably just aquired a frag.
By the way nice growth the are a really nice piece if you can keep the blue tips.

 

[blide]

Bottlebrush, Tenius, or Chips either way it's dead in about a month! That pink GSP growing downward and the green GSP growing upward will consume that little frag in a very short time span.

 

[erbio]

Yes, I did not get it from ORA. I got it from a LFS and it was the smallest thing. It was brown; it had no other color.

It's not going to be attacked by ANY briareum, be calm. I sit in front of my tank for at least a half hour each day. The GSP haven't even started growing in it's direction. The pink encrusting gorgonian was a frag from a tank which was covered it it. This tank had it growing -around- all other corals.

 

[Atomikk]

Its probably from Marshall Islands, A. tenuis, and will look like this:

 

[erbio]

Someone sent me this:

 

[29reef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15697932#post15697932 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Whisperer
Bottle brush is not a specific name for a coral, I have seen more than one species of corals that are called bottle brush.

Bottle brush acropora is a common name for the coral in the photo. Acropora tenuis is what I believe the specific scientific name to be.

 

[Whisperer]

A. aculeus is one coral that many call bottle brush as well.

 

[Oldude]

+1 for a.tenuis